just mean as regards noise, so as to scare 
him, and yet not yell so loudly as to reach 
the buffalo if they happened to be near by. 
At last I succeeded, and he trotted sullenly 
off, tacking and veering, and not going far. 
On we v/ent, and in another half-hour came 
on our quarry. I was the first to catch a 
glimpse of the line of bulky black forms, 
picked out with white where the sun glinted 
on the horn bosses. It was ten o’clock, a 
hot, windless morning on the equator, with 
the sun shining from a cloudless sky; yet 
these buffalo were feeding in the open, miles 
from water or dense cover. They were 
greedily cropping the few tufts of coarse 
herbage that grew among the sparse thorn 
bushes, which here were not more than 
two feet high. In many places buffalo are 
purely nocturnal feeders, and do not come 
into the hot, bare plains in the scorching 
glare of daylight; and our experience with 
this herd illustrates afresh the need of 
caution in generalizing about the habits 
of game. 
We crept toward them on all-fours, hav¬ 
ing left the porters hidden from sight. At 
last we were within rather long range— 
a buffalo’s eyesight is good, and cannot 
be trifled with as if he were a rhino or 
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elephant—and cautiously scrutinized the 
herd through our glasses. There were only 
cows and perhaps one or two young bulls 
with horns no bigger than those of cows. I 
would have liked another good bull’s head 
for myself; but I also wished another cow 
for the museum. Before I could shoot, 
however, a loud yelling was heard from 
among the porters in our rear; and away 
went the buffalo. Full of wrath, we walked 
back to inquire. We found that one porter 
had lost his knife, and had started back to 
look for it, accompanied by two of his fel¬ 
lows, which was absolutely against orders. 
They had come across a rhino, probably 
the one I had frightened from our path, and 
had endeavored to avoid him; but he had 
charged them, whereupon they scattered. 
He overtook one and tossed him, goring 
him in the thigh; whereupon they came 
back, the two unwounded ones supporting 
the other, and all howling like lost souls. I 
had some crystals' of permanganate, an 
antiseptic, and some cotton in my saddle 
pocket; Cuninghame tore some of the lin¬ 
ing out of his sleeve for a bandage; and we 
fixed the man up and left him with one 
companion, while we sent another in to 
camp to fetch out a dozen men with a 
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